Stargazing on a Cloudy Day: Okay, so we block these suggestions out a couple weeks in advance, and maybe we should have realized that visibility would be pretty iffy this time of year, but these guys should still be on your radar, maybe not for tonight, but someday. The universe is expanding, in case you hadn't heard, so there's a great deal to look at up there.

Tavis Smiley: Public radio personality made manifest, in the flesh at Town Hall!

More Public Radio Personality Incarnate: There are still tickets available to see Radiolab's Jad Abumrad at Benaroya Hall tonight.

Trotta
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Robertro Trotta: You may not be able to see anything through a telescope tonight, but you can still experience Trotta's new book, in which he tries to make sense of the universe using only the thousand most commonly employed words in the English language. He's also at Town Hall tonight.

Conor Oberst: Great American musician and briefly the victim of a lie.

Amon Amarth at El Corazon: In case you're in the mood for thunderous, technically precise, heavily mythology-inflected death metal.